General chair´s message

The organizing committee of ICASSP 2011 is delighted to welcome you to the 36th IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), which is being held at the Prague Congress Centre, May 22–27, 2011. This is the flagship conference for the IEEE Signal Processing Society. In 1997, ICASSP was held in Munich, Germany, and now, in 2011, ICASSP is back in Central Europe. During the intervening years, the event has been held across the continents and next year will return to Asia, when Kyoto in Japan will be the venue. The ICASSP conference is the world´s largest and most comprehensive technical event, focused on signal processing and its applications. The conference includes overview lectures, detailed scientific sessions and exhibitions, together with social and cultural events.